Roger Milliken (October 24, 1915 – December 30, 2010) was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Milliken & Company, the largest privately owned textile and chemical manufacturer in the world with $4 billion in annual sales. He led the company for 71 years, and was heralded as the greatest leader in American textiles in the 20th century. Roger Milliken graduated from Yale in 1937 and immediately entered the family business. He started out in New York City's Mercantile Stores, in which his family had an ownership stake. There he made the rounds of suppliers, seeing to it that...